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The Illinois Basin has produced more than four billion barrels of petroleum. [6] Major oil production began in 1905, and from 1907 through 1912, the basin was the third-most oil productive area in the United States. Oil production peaked in 1908 at 34 million barrels per year, and declined steadily to 5 million barrels in 1933.
The Wood River Refinery is an oil refinery located in Roxana, Illinois, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri, on the east side of the Mississippi River. The refinery is currently owned by Phillips 66 and Cenovus Energy and operated by the joint-venture company WRB Refining, LLC (WRB).
States require a drilling permit before a well begins drilling. Requirements to receive drilling permits generally include minimum setbacks from lease or unit boundaries, and adequate casing and cementing programs. States generally require permits for or notices of major work done on a well, and periodic reports of oil and gas produced.
The Biden administration has issued more permits for oil and gas drilling on public land per month than the Trump administration did in its first three years, according to a new analysis of ...
Roxana is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,454 at the 2020 census. [3] The ZIP Code is 62084. A majority of the land in Roxana is taken up by the Wood River Refinery, an oil refinery operated by Phillips 66. The refinery was originally built and owned by Shell Oil.
It was responsible for three-quarters of pipeline movements in that district in 2010 and processes approximately 2.2 million barrels of oil per day. [3] [4] Patoka is the main oil terminal in the region where oil was first discovered in 1938. [5] Tax revenue from operations are collected and distributed by Marion County, Illinois.
Representatives of the industry are quick to point out that new drilling permits have declined sharply in recent years, from thousands of permits per year in 2018 to about 500 permits in 2022 ...
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